Council cuts in social services like these in Birminghamhelp make Health figures show reducing NHS continuing tion the increasingly restrictive imposed by local authorities, as Sure on social service budgets increasing local demand for care to restrict the numbers realities of the regime ushered in by the. 1988 Griffiths Report, and then passed through the Commons by the Thatcher government - with eager all-party support - and implemented from 1993, are also consistently ignored in the chunky commission report.
Sir Roy Griffiths, then managdirector of Sainsbury's, explicitly referred to making use of the savings and assets of pensioners as a means of paying for their long-term care means-tested charges.
The Tory proposals never made any secret of their ambition to complete the privatisation of care of the elderly. But the Royal Commission stops well short of saying so, allowing the dimwits write the leader column from the Guardian (which backed the Griftits proposals all the way) to complain now that one announced this major policy over 40,000 year are now obliged,